Love that sleepy lion shot! Yes they're a bit oversharpened, especially the last one.

Lovely compact little lens with a very handy range. Excellent condition. 60.00 or near offer.




Apologies for phone-cam picture.

I'm sure I read somewhere that future compact cameras would be branded Ricoh, with DSLRs branded as Pentax. I presume we're seeing that start to kick in. Either way, my response to the HZ15 is a resounding 'meh'.

Shaun, that's 'Grrrrrreat' news!

Well the Photozone.de review and the EPZ review were both pretty frank about the lens's technical shortcomings. The difference was that John's review also emphasisied that, aside from those technical issues, in real world use the lens was capable of nice images. And in a very useful package.

I think you can get too hung up on bench tests and pixel peepings etc... but OTOH when the lens was introduced, it was expensive, so I think it was reasonable to expect a better technical performance. Now the price has settled, it's becoming more and more popular, which is as it should be.

70mm posted.

Now - anyone for this 35-105mm lens? Excellent little walkabout lens, very nice IQ. And of course it's very usable on film / FF

I voted!

Yeah I agree with what they were trying to achieve, but the bad layout, confusing wording, and typos really let that bit of marketing down. Presume they asked the intern to do it or something. Embarrassing!

70mm sold

Ok let's do the first Sunday in October. That's nice and easy to remember and far enough away to plan around. Hopefully Andrew will be up and about by then too!

Shall we stick with the Chrome Hill / Roaches idea? Lovely corner of the peak.

Could always push back to the end of September, the light is getting better and better as we approach autumn...